The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Looks To Take Luxury To The Next Level In The Maldives

When it comes to luxury travel, many high-end resorts provide guests with peacefully opulent villas built over impossibly blue water, personal butlers that will anticipate their every need, and infinity pools that go on, well, into infinity.

St Regis provides a 66-foot yacht to select guestsSt Regis

And quite a few resorts, especially those that have a significant residential, or private membership offerings, provide some sort of boat for owners and guests to use while they’re there. But as I’ve learned recently, few have quite the same yachting “experience” as the St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort does.

John Jacob Astor VillaSt Regis

Priced at $150,000, the St. Regis resort in the Maldives has designed a five-night “Live Exquisite” experience to impress even the most experienced luxury traveler. It begins at the airport where guests are picked up in the resort’s brand-new 66-foot-long yacht built by Azimut, and then are whisked away to the Resort’s John Jacob Astor Estate villa.

Villa lifeSt Regis

The large two-story estate on the lagoon comes with a dedicated estate butler and an Olympic-sized infinity pool and hot tub on its massive deck over in the Indian Ocean. It also contains as a private gym, spa suites, cinema, and a large kitchen that can accommodate 12 for private dining. In fact, a special dinner in the villa that’s tailored to each guest by the resort’s Culinary Director or Executive Sous Chef.

Even the pools are "overwater" at the St Regis MaldivesSt Regis

But one of the many highlights that sets the “Live Exquisite” package apart has to be the half-day cruise on board the Azimut that comes with the package. With three fully-equipped cabins, the yacht makes it easy for guests to explore the Maldives’ famous diving spots, even “get away from it all” when being pampered in a 4,400 square foot villa over the Indian Ocean becomes…routine.

SunsetSt Regis

In fact, when it comes to luxury travel in the Maldives the ocean is the only limit.

During my previous life as an editor at several American yachting magazines, I was lucky enough to sail thousands of offshore miles on a wide variety of boats. My job as yachting scribe has brought me on adventures from the Arctic Circle to the equator, and to nearly every ...